THE BELLS OF STEPAN ILINE

(Cradle Song from "The Long Road.")

Whisht, Baby! Whisht!

Quick below the cover!

Down into your nest, my bird!
And-don't-you-dare-peep-over!
For the grey wolves they are prowling,
They are prowling, they are prowling.
And the snow-wind it is howling,

It is howling, it is howling.

And they seek little babies who aren't sleeping!
But lie you still, my Baby dear!

Lie still, lie still, and maybe you'll hear—
Hark! ---- Hark!---

Out there in the dark,

The silver bells and the golden bells,

The swinging bells and the singing bells,The bells that are heard but never are seen, The wind and the wolves, and the bells in between,

The bells of Iline,

Good Stepan Iline,

The bells of good Stepan

Iline!

BOLT THAT DOOR!

Each sin has its door of entrance.
Keep-that-door-closed!
Bolt it tight!

Just outside, the wild beast crouches

In the night.

Pin the bolt with a prayer,

God will fix it there.

GIANT CIRCUMSTANCE

Though every nerve be strained
To fine accomplishment,
Full oft the life fall spent
Before the prize is gained.
And, in our discontent
At waste so evident,

In doubt and vast discouragement

We wonder what is meant.

But, tracing back we find

A Power that held the ways

A Mighty Hand," Master Mind,
That all the troubled course defined
And overruled the days.

Some call it Fate; some-Chance;
Some-Giant Circumstance;

And some, upreaching to the sense
Of God within the circumstance,
Do call it-Providence!

THE HUNGRY SEA

Down to the sea, the hungry sea,

O the sea is hungry ever! Seeking food for the bairns and me, Seeking food in the hungry sea;

O the sea is hungry ever!

My man and my lad-their bones are white,
O the sea is hungry ever!

Into the maw of the grim black night,
Their hearts were bold and their faces bright;
O the sea is hungry ever!

The sun was red and the clouds were black, O the sea is hungry ever!

And the sky was heavy with flying wrack, When forth they fared, -and they came not back;

O the sea is hungry ever!

Forth they fared and they came not back,
O the sea is hungry ever!

O, I fear the sea, and I hate the sea,
That took my man and my lad from me;
O the sea is hungry ever!

WE THANK THEE, LORD

We thank Thee, Lord,

That of Thy tender grace,

In our distress

Thou hast not left us wholly comfortless.

We thank Thee, Lord,

That of Thy wondrous might,

Into our night

Thou hast sent down the glory of the Light.

We thank Thee, Lord,

That all Thy wondrous ways,

Through all our days,

Are Wisdom, Right, and Ceaseless Tender

ness.

THE VAIL

He only sees both sides of that dark vail
That hangs before men's eyes—

He only. It is well!

Hope ever stands unseen

Behind the screen,

For knowledge would bring Hope to sudden

death,

And cloud the present with the coming ill.

I would lie still, Dear Lord,

I would lie still,

And stay my troubled heart on Thee,

Obedient to Thy will.

No EAST OR WEST

In Christ there is no East or West,
In Him no South or North,
But one great Fellowship of Love
Throughout the whole wide earth.

In Him shall true hearts everywhere
Their high communion find.
His service is the golden cord
Close-binding all mankind.

Join hands then, Brothers of the Faith,
Whate'er your race may be !-

Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me.

In Christ now meet both East and West,
In Him meet South and North,

All Christly souls are one in Him,
Throughout the whole wide earth.

THE DAY-THE WAY

Not for one single day

Can I discern my way,

But this I surely know,

Who gives the day,

Will show the way,

So I securely go.